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TIMES-GAZETTE TELEPHONE NUMBERS Classified Advertising. . RA 3-3492 All Other Calls. ....... RA 3-3474 Combining The Oshawa Times and Whitby Gazette and Chronicle THE DAILY TIMES-GAZETT Wea ther Forecast Colder tonight and Thursday. High today 40. Low tonight 28. VOL. 85--NO. 56 Authorized as Second-Class Mail Post Office Department, Ottawa OSHAWA-WHITBY, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 7, 1956 Price Not Over $ Cents Per Copy SIXTEEN PAGES PICKERING AREA WATERS GO ON RAMPAGE HOME SOUTH OF No. 2 HIGHWAY IN PICKERING VILLAGE -* Rs DUFFIN"S CREEK SOUTH OF PICKERING IS ICE-CHOKED FAMILIES EVACUATED IN RIVERSIDE DRIVE AREA Photos by John Mills TORONTO (CP)--Premier Frost|500,000 in 1957 if the plan were op-/free. Much of the financing 2 4 A M 1 | | . today presented to the Ontario leg-| erative by then, rising to $300,- be by premiums, a spéeial sales p i islature for its consideration a full- 000,000 by 1960. Federal aid was tax or a combination ¢f the two.| scale hospital-insurance plan, in- cluding complete diagnostic, hos- pital and home care. He said, however, the plan does not mean Ontario is committed in any way to setting up hospital in-| surance, but is intended only to show legislature members the lat-| est government thoughts on the subject. essential. In its present stage, it would have the government picking up the tab for general, convalescent or chronic hospital bills including ordinary drugs, medicines and dressings. | Special diagnostic services such as radiological examinations and laboratory tests would be paid as It was presented during a de- would hospital bills for mental and bate on second reading of a bill to tubercula r patients, | services would be pro-| set up a hospital The plan was hased n xpenditures of $213. Fo The pl | Premier Frost indicated the gov- an, however, would not be'aione in the foreseea If premiums were used, and! Barns Burned By Lightning, hte ov Roads Barred tive if the legislature approves it., TORONTO (CP) Premier Frost told reporters in watch Se ernment prefers this system at the moment, they would be less than those now paid to private insurance organizations because federal and provincial payments would absorb some of the cost. MUST HAVE HELP was i during hugricake Hazel. 3 Civil defence officials ed |" LM 9 s w v future, F OTTAWA (CP)--Defence against the Intercontinental sile is possible, says Dr. Solandt, former chairman of Defence Research Board But the 'real danger" next 10 or 15 years, he told aj 90-minute press conference Tues- day, is the time-lag between de- velopment of the ICBM and the defence against it, which undoubt- edly would be some form of coun- ter-missile. Whichever side--the free world or the Communists--first got the ICBM would hold political domin- ance over the other at least until an effective countermeasure was| 0. M/! in the Guided Mis- Canadian air ighters Near Obsolet Say CF-105 May Be Last effective in will be required for defence the foreseeable future an system the SUPERSEDE PLANES The 46-year-old doctor - scientist said ground-to-air missiles event- ually will supersede fighter planes in the defence system. The CF - 105 jet interceptor, a prototype of which may be flown next year, probably would be the last piloted fighter produced in Canada Dr. Solandt, who left DRB last week to become assistant vice- president of Canadian National Railways in charge of research, said he would be 'surprised' if the ICBM does not become a reality -- e the usually-placid river, rising 36 miles north of Toronto, was swirl-!| {ing only a foot below suburban bridges and was clogged with ice. Lightning flashed and thunder rumbled as the night storm which brought the new threat to south- ern Ontario swelled small rivers land streams to the danger level, Canada in the coming years to im- choked sewers and sent flood proved methods of detection and waters surging into thousands ol early warning of attack. cellars But when the ICBM became an! Many roads were blocked. N¢ operational weapon the air defence injuries or deaths were reported system as it is known today--radar| Police at Bolton, 24 miles north lines and interceptor planes--would of Toronto, reported the water rose be of little use. four feet during the night at one AH. Zimmerman, Dr. Solandt's|of the Humber's mdjor dams suecessor at DRB, said the defence! They said the level eould climb against the ICBM will have to be 314 more feet before reaching the 99 per cent effective if the missile danger point. carries a nuclear warhead. |cOLD ENDS THREAT Dr. Solandt warned that the " p..i of the storm -- which shortage of scientists and engineers) 4, ned more than an inch of rain in Canada is already a critical|,yomight--was said well past in| problem, not only for defence re- qt of sothern Ontario, althought HE search but for industry as well.| op vars followed by snowflurries This shortage would be the domi-| oo" forecast for later today Creek Hits 10-Yr. Hi + PICKERING «w= - (Times-Gazette, Staff Reporter) - Last nights heavy rains sent Duffin's Creek to its high- est level in ten years. Twenty-four families living in the Riverside Drive area, one mile north of Pickering Village, were forced to leave their homes by the rapidly rising | waters, and take shelter with neighbors living on' higher ground. Three families, refused to leave their homes after | being warned by police. _ At midnight, Department of| Pickering Red Cross wa son the Highways employees barricaded |scene to nake sure that all famil- No. 2 Highway in Pickering Vil ies were taken care of. age and traffic was re-routed on! Mrs E. Pyett i » Highway 401. Three feet of wal- area for the past aesident of She p th huge ice cakes cover-|p..; : Tae od the Lighwas: eest fi aving seen many floods said "I Ini " ng a a be} vil have never seen the water higher." 5 ge hy e 4|She paid tribute to the efficiency of age. ighways truck equipped the pjckering Village Firemen and with snow plow stood by to keep to the Pickering Township Poli ice from blocking the road. bi ig 4 Sup +o ice, {COVER ROADBED She said, "They were really on | Flood waters covered the road-|the iob this time, and were won- Mbed under the Pickering Cloverleaf derful. at the foot of Church Street, Pick-| The Le Blanc family who live ering to a depth of six feet. Ice is next door to the Pyettes were the jammed in the creek bed at Pick- first to leave their home. Water ering in an ice field that extends started to cover the ground floor, las far as th eye can see. when a neighbour, Jim Pearsall, | Local residents had anticipated a veteran of many floods, equip- | ! NOW DRIVES A TRUCK developed. He said ground-to-air guided mis- within 15 years. siles fitted with nuclear warheads! Top priority. must be given in nant factor in Canadian scientific g freezing rain was reported and economic development. Save Girl, 11 Charges U.S. Investments In Mad Dash Economic Colonialism' | OTTAWA (CP)--Canada is un- {dergoing an invasion of United States eapital that can only be termed '"'economic colonialism" HAL school and a halt must be called to it, priicipal, police, soldiers 28 3 Senator David Croll declared Tues- next - door neighbor combined day in the Senate. forces Tuesday to save the life of The outs i ¥ ; y : poken Liberal, one-time an 11-year-old girl who accident: Ontario labor minister, said about a 13 versd an artery 0 her arm. , third of all investment in Cana- +a - ©. "2 dian manufacture is by U.S.-con- ered fhe"hed raed companies and "the Cana through a plate-glass door while dian investor cannot make an in- playing at East Flamboro public Yestment in the Canadian sub- school near Hamilton BiCiar Ce As blood spurted from the girl's There was concern in Canada « : T wrist, school principal Anita John- 'over our being mortgaged to U.S. ston and Albert Bogle, a Hamilton | corporations who are beginning to district farmer who was picking control our economic future. up his children at the school, took He was not suggesting legisla- Nellie by car to the Ontario Pro-|tion to control non-Canadian com- vineial Police Waterdown detach-! panies in this country. But it was ment. They asked for an escort to time Canadians were aware of hospital in Hamilton. what is happening and, more im- Constable Ernest) Allan relieved portant, that foreign corporations Mr. Bogle, who was near exhaus- realize Canadians are aware of the To Hospital HAMILTON (CP A situation and intend te do some- thing about it The Senate's first member of the Jewish faith, appointed last July, got little support from his col leagues. Senator Thomas A. Crerar (L-- Manitoba), one-time cabinet min-| ister, and Senator Salter Hayden (L--Ontario), a corporation lawyer and businessman, both spoke against discouragement of U.S. in- vestment in Canada. Senator Croll opened the 1%-hour debate on third reading of a bill to incorporate Signature Loan and Finance Co., Canadian subsidiary of an American small loans com- pany which plans to do business in the Maritimes and Quebec. The bill eventually was passed. The Ontario senator was shocked to learn 83 per cent of the small] loans field in Canada is owned and controlled by two foreign corpora- tions, tion, in applying pressure on the girl's arm in an attempt to stop the flow of blood. Constable Alex Wynne took the driver's seat DELAYED BY TRAFFIC LATE NEWS FLASHES Heavy early evening traffic hin- dered the life and death race. Mot- orists paid little attention. police said, to the car's horn until the two officers flagged down an army ambulance and with its warning light flashing and the siren goingl followed it to hospital. NICOSIA, Cyprus bomb explosions were he Greek Cypriots defied int Man Injured | On Car Job Frank McIntosh, 46, of 88 Bond Street west, was injured, Tuesday when a block and tackle supporting his car Mcintosh vorking car and a and face lacerations He was taken te hospital reported to have partners' 100 percent sup United Nations disputed Himalayan state today collapsed inder the broken arm suffered Supervises U.N. May Supervise Kashmir Vote KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) -- Pakistan was Terrorist Bomb Kills Youth (Reuters) Terrorist ard during the night as ensified British measures to stamp out their campaign of violence. A youth was fatally injured by a bomb splinter when a gren- ade was hurled at a patrol car. won her seven SEATO port for a demand that a 1 plebiscite be held in the of Kashmir, | States predicted between Trenton and Kingston. Minor flooding was Lightning-ignited fires ment plant tion of wall on a Hami TRAFFIC SNARLED York county roads early today were coated with ice and traffic was almost at a standstill. School buses in King, Vaughan, Whitchurch and parts of Markham township nearby were taken off the roads. : Police at Newmarket, 25 miles north of Toronto, said two cars jured. 3 ; Police at Caledon said traffic on secondary roads was faced with almost. impossible conditions. SERIES OPENER IS CANCELLED WHITBY -- The opening ame of the Senior B Eastern ntario Hockey League series between Whitby Dunlops and Brockville Magedomas, which was to have been played at the Whitby Arena tonight, has been cancelled. Officials of the Brockville Club telephoned this morning to report that due to a 14-inch fall of snow in the St. Law- rence river district travel to Whitby is impossible The first game of the series will be played at Brockville on Friday night of this week. Sorry Folks! Still "Vi /Inter WASHIN The United wd {TON (CP) weather bureau Tuesday near-normal and below- temperatures for Canada next 30 days. On r northern L: Su normal throughou! tario, except perior regions the fo ke general. destroyed| Leslie Cziraky now drives a |barns in Tillsonburg and Rodney, {in the London area. Wind ripped the roof off a large farm equip- at Thamesville and lightning smashed a four-foot sec-| Iton school. would have near- normal conditions. | Former Hungarian count and leader of Hungarian aristocracy before the Second World War, truck for a Hamilton steel com- | tary dress. His wife Catherine pany, and is happily married to the girl who used to admire mag- azine pictures of him in full mili- a bad flood when the creek did break up, because for the first lime in many years the creek has remained frozen the entire winter. Crest of the flood was reached at doesn't mind not having the title of the former count who came to Canada five years ago with $25 and two suit cases. Sent To Reds Lucy, expelled University of Ala. | bama coed, said Tuesday night she |ettributed to her by a radin kroad- |cast from Communist Vietnam. | "I have never written anything {for any Communist cause," Miss Lucy said. The North Viet Nam broadcast, monitored by the U.S. information agency, quoted a letter attributed to the Negro irl who is attempt- {ing to gain admission to the uni- versity. | | The broadcast asked whether Americans, who "are opposing and despising the American Negroes," twere "pretending to be charitable" to the '"'yellow-skinned south Viet- namese" in order to bring them under the yoke of America. | Man, 65, Hurt In Collision Ray Wilkins, 65, of Port Perry. was reported in 'fair' condition] in Oshawa General Hospital with |injuries received in a car-truck col- | lision. Full details of the action, which | occurred north of Brooklin, were not available, but police said Wil- kins was found injured in his car {in a field following a collision with a truck | Fred Swane, of Lindsay, identified as the driver of the {tru The accident occurred ahout m. The Whithy detachment of the OPP investigaied, Wilkins was found about 8 p.m., police said. | was lof works bridge patrol. Oshawa board of works continue to check water levels here today, after heavy rain caused wide- the night. No accurate estimate 0 of the weather forecaster at Malton. He said about one inch of rain fell in the Toronto area during the | last 2¢ hours, but admitted the downpour may have been heavier at Oshawa. Rain could turn to snow later today, he said, with temperatures dropping sharply tonight to about 15 above zero. Fast rising water last night cut off an uridentified couple parked in a panel truck north of the bridge at Wilson Rd. N. They were carried to safety by Fred Tullock, member of a board At the Leight of the storm, plug- ged catch-basins caused flooding on Jarvis. Fisher, Simcoe S. near Whitin, and Central Park at Eula- lie. . Water flowec over the top of the b:idge at Wilson Rd. N., awa Creek rose to six inches belo the John St. bridge. Residents of Rosehill Blvd., near the site of the new shopping centre, were forced to park their cars sev- eral blocks away from home, being unable to drive through deep mud. A spokesman for Gary Coach] Lines Ltd. said passenger service between Oshawa and Toronto was slowed during the night due to flooding of the highway at Whitby and Pickering. Gray Coach officials re-routed | passengei's at Pickering, where heavy flooding caused evecuation of 10 families last night. The Toronto-bound passengers | |n"ght vntil 2 a.m. today. Ousted Co-Ed Flooding Extensive Denies Letter In Oshawa Area Bridge patrols organized by the|vere transported over to the old NEW YORK (AP) -- Autherine spread flooding in the district dur- at Dundas St. E. was closed off to| the |The subway was re-opened at 6 rolled into ditches on No. 11 high- will broadcast over the Voice of amount o rainfall at Oshawa was am. nn instructions from the de-| way at Armitage. No one was in- america today a denial of a letter immediately available from the partment of Highways. In <h. | Says nq low | washed oat in the area. | 1 a.m. At 4 a.m. the water was re- ceding slightly, but at that time the rain started again. Police and firemen stood by at | Riverside Drive until all families were safe. Some refused to leave until the last minute. Floods are a familiar thing to some of the {older Jesidenis of the area, and t : 2 g highway with the aid of a shuttle BY vate em ho ther Sie us. . ievel, firemen drove into th At Whitby, the flooded subway ith 'a four wheel ive tor gate and brought them to dry land. today. ON THE SCENE Bad washouts in the area have made the roads well nigh impas- 1 : [sible. The tow truck, a convert- A local towing service reported ed army vehicle, loaned by, Disney auling two buses and 19 automo-|Motors, biles out of foi. feet of water in|method the subway during the night. Jack Rae, superintendent of the through traffic at 1 a.m. | of reaching the west side of |the creek at Riverside. Pickering, was the only| ped with hip boots carried the four |children to safety. |FAMILIES RESCUED | Some of the families living on {the west side of the creek were |rescued by firemen who drove |their truck into the water which | was too deep for hip boots. | Fire Chief Scott said afterwards {that things were pretty rough. {Flooded roads, washouts, darkness {and teeming rain made things dif- (ficult, Only the fact that the truck was a four wheel drive vehicle |made navigation possible; | Some apprehension is felt that jice Jars may damage the bridge jon Second Street, in Ajax. {bridge carries the water main that | serves Pickering Village. If the | main is damaged Pickering will be . {without a water supply. The cress | valle al this point is abog | quarter of a mile wide. morning the whole area lake .. There are no crea. Whitby Township works depart-| ment, said there was little his em- ployees cou'd do but keep the wat- er moving. He stressed the inadequacy of Whitby Township storm sewers, which failed to carry away the we Reform Char A culvert was flooded at the An-| : derson Box Co., Whitby, which is| TORONTO (CP) -- Ontario CCF built on a grade, and employees leader Donald C. MacDonald said manned pumps from 10 p.m. last Tyesday night the Progressive Con- The loading ramp is now under Servative government "won't get five feet of water, and water has away with its attempts to laugh seeped beneath doors into the off" charges of improper practices building. in the reforms institutions depart- Lavy Arksey, an employee of the ment company who resides in Brooklin, * : There are too many persons in that concession roads are the province vitally concerned with the backward conditions existing in Ontario's institutions for the gov- | ernment to be able to ignore them forever, he said during budget de- Trial Delays To Be Checked |»: i» te ontario esisature. TORONTO (CP)--Attorney-Gen-|dian Association of Social Workers, eral Roberts said Tuesday night a|Which he described as being equiv- special advisory committee will be|alent to the Canadian Medical appoinged early this summer to in- Association or the Bar Association, vestigate complaints of serious de-|criticizing the reforms department. lays in trials. | His 45-minute talk touched off He told the Ontario Legislature another exchange of. personalities the committee alto will look into'between himself and complaints that courts are over- members crowded. Premier Frost interrupted him government ¢ Can't Let Frost 'Laug ges-CC at one point to say he i pert at insinuations, inuendoes ry smearing attacks on peo | giving any evidence, ple without There had been man: | the Ontario legisl | stooped to using personal ins further their ends, but no pig dL ever stooped so low fer st as Mr. Mac- | Mr. MacDonald Frost was trying assembly and ign a reputable welfare group was agreeing with charges he made before the assembly opened about ackwardness in the reform partment., 5 do A few minutes later, he asked the speaker to order the premier to sit down when Mr. Frost tried to interrupt him. The association's letter, sent the premier Feb. 16, said Ontatiots | institutions "do not reform." lacked modern psychiatric, medi- ind therapeutic facilities recog. nized as being essential to modern | penclogy. V persons ature who A replied Premier to sidetrack the ore the fact that